In the Studio: Jiro Taniguchi (The Walking Man, A Distant Neighborhood)

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Jiro Taniguchi (14 August 1947 – 11 February 2017) was a Japanese manga writer/artist. His works belong to the gekiga, or "dramatic pictures", genre of manga. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
Taniguchi began his career as an assistant of manga artist Kyūta Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya, published in the magazine Young Comic.
In 1997, he created the Icaro series with texts by Moebius.

Jiro Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (1998) for the series The Times of Botchan, the Shogakukan Manga Award with Inu o Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for A Distant Neighborhood. His work has been translated in many languages. The majority of his English translated books have been published by Fanfare/Ponent Mon. Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro praised his work, stating that "Taniguchi was a manga poet, the Kieslowski of the page and a serene, profound observer of the world".

A Distant Neighborhood was adapted into a live-action Belgian film in 2010.

In 2014, Taniguchi visited the Louis Vuitton writing cabinet, 6 place St Germain des Prés, Paris to in celebration of his Venice contribution to the Louis Vuitton Travel Book series that launched in 2013. While there, he was interviewed by local Parisian blogger, whose nom de plume is Tokyobanhbao.

In 2016, an excerpt of The Walking Man was featured at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg as part of the "Hokusai X Manga: Japanese Pop Culture since 1680" exhibit. An accompanying catalog book was published that same year.

Taniguchi has cited Hiroshi Hirata, Takao Saito, Moribi Murano, and Kyūta Ishikawa as major influences.

Taniguchi died on 11 February 2017 in Tokyo, at the age of 69.
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